"OK, thanks!" I shouted to dad, still not entirely used to my new girlish voice, and then I went into my room.
It didn't change much, thank goodness. The walls were still white and hunter green, all my stuff was still
there(minus the clothes in my closet, which were now girls clothes), and everything seemed to be normal minus
the fact that I was now a girl(*squee!).
*Knock*
"Hey Joey, I heard the news from downstairs. Congratulations."
"Oh, thanks. It's Josie now, by the way."
I turned around to face her.
My big sister Ruth(she was one year older than me) was magically compelled not to care about my new form, but
as soon as she came in, I suddenly remembered something. Ruth was turned off by lesbians and gay folk. It's
not that she was bigoted or anything, but she was pretty open about the fact that she found homosexual sex to
be gross. I suppose I could use the ring to alter her mind and make her more accepting of the new me, but that
just wouldn't be right. I wouldn't want MY mind changed. So I decided just not to bring up my new sexuality
until I felt she had to know.
"OK. Josie then. It's nice to have a sister instead of a brother, I 'spose. We can share stuff now, and keep
secrets with one another."
"You keep secrets from me?"
"Oh, just girl stuff you wouldn't have been interested in when you were a boy. But now I promise to be open
with you. And you can steal clothes from my closet whenever you like." She smiled, and then noticed my ring.
"Cute ring. Where did you get it?"
I then explained the whole situation with the purse, and the strange old lady who gave me this power. I
explicitly told Ruth that it was magical. That I could do virtually anything with this ring.
"Wow! Like Harry Potter or something!"
"Yeah" I agreed modestly.
My sister was a big fan of Harry Potter, and she always wanted a wand like his. Quietly, I started to grant
her wish.
"I wish for Ruth to have a real, functioning magic wand like in Harry Potter, and I wish for all the spells in
the books and movies to work for her!"
I stared at my ring for a second, wondering if it would work, and when I looked up, Ruth was holding a pointed
stick in her hand.
"Oh my God, thank you Josie!"
Ruth hugged me hard, and I hugged her back. Somehow, she knew that I did this for her.
She ran to her room(and I trailed her), pointed her wand at a book she was reading, and said "Wingardium
Leviosa!"
Immediately, the book started levitating in mid air, a few inches off of her bed. Slowly, as her interest
waned, it slowly floating back down to the bed. Ruth then stared a me with a self satisfied, mock-smug smirk.
"Please" I said dismissively. "I can do better".
Silently, I wished for Ruth herself to start levitating off of the floor with my ring, and she did.
"Whoa!" she screamed. Then she started giggling, and begged me to let her down.
"What?" I asked. "Can't you turn me into a toad with your witchy powers?"
"No, sis! I need to practice! Let me down!"
"Down" I commanded, and then she went down to the floor again.
"Girls, suppertime!" yelled dad.
"Oh boy!" I shouted. Dad always made such good food.